This is the most difficult news i’ve had to post since Mammal broke up….

The Shiny life is usually one of fun, joy and good times. This cautionary tale started out that way and looked like continuning the trend until Mother Nature butted in and said it wasn’t gonna be so…read on pilgrims, but above all else, KEEP THE FAITH!

After almost three days of fun, good vibes and hot music, and with just three hours before New Year’s Eve 2009, The Pyramid Rock Festival was hit by a severe electrical storm that ripped across Phillip Island.

The west facing Main Stage of the festival bore the full force of the extreme Westerly that brought fierce winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunder to the finale of the three day Phillip Island music festival.

The Main Stage suffered major damage to vital lighting and effects systems that could not be restored in time to bring in the New Year. All effort was made to reinstate the appropriate and acceptable standard of stage production levels to the Main Stage area without success, prompting festival organisers arranging to re-locate the four remaining main stage headline acts for the night from the Main Stage to the Pharaoh’s Annex tent.

However with venue safety analysis ongoing, organisers and bands in conjunction with security and emergency services personnel decided that moving the acts to the Pharaoh’s Annex would be unsafe.

The Pyramid Rock Festival organisers sincerely regret that the festival could not run as scheduled and extend their sincere apologies to all the patrons and artists involved – Empire Of The Sun; Grinspoon; The Butterfly Effect; & Van She – for their understanding and support. However, they remain secure in the knowledge that the most difficult decision in their proud six year history was made with patron, artist, employee and volunteer safety as its foremost consideration.